''Nautilocalyx'' is a
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...
of
plant
Plants are predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae. Historically, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included algae and fungi; however, all current definitions of Plantae exclu ...
s in the family
Gesneriaceae
Gesneriaceae, the gesneriad family, is a family of flowering plants consisting of about 152 genera and ca. 3,540 species in the tropics and subtropics of the Old World (almost all Didymocarpoideae) and the New World (most Gesnerioideae), wi ...
.
Its native range stretches from Costa Rica to southern Tropical America and to Trinidad. It is also found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Panamá, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago and Venezuela.
Species
Plants of the World Online (Kew) accepts 41 species;
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Nautilocalyx adenosiphon'' (Leeuwenb.) Wiehler
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Nautilocalyx aeneus'' (Linden & André) Wiehler
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Nautilocalyx arenarius'' L.E.Skog & Steyerm.
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Nautilocalyx bicolor'' (Hook.) Wiehler
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Nautilocalyx biserrulatus'' Kriebel
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Nautilocalyx bracteatus'' (Planch.) Sprague
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Nautilocalyx bryogeton'' (Leeuwenb.) Wiehler
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Nautilocalyx bullatus'' (Lem.) Sprague
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Nautilocalyx cataractarum'' Wiehler
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Nautilocalyx chimantensis'' L.E.Skog & Steyerm.
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Nautilocalyx coccineus'' Feuillet & L.E. Skog
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Nautilocalyx colombianus'' Wiehler
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Nautilocalyx colonensis'' Wiehler
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Nautilocalyx cordatus'' (Gleason) L.E.Skog
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Nautilocalyx decumbens'' (Mart.) Wiehler
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Nautilocalyx dressleri'' Wiehler
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Nautilocalyx ecuadoranus'' Wiehler
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Nautilocalyx fasciculatus'' L.E.Skog & Steyerm.
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Nautilocalyx forgetii'' (Sprague) Sprague
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Nautilocalyx glandulifer'' Wiehler
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Nautilocalyx hirsutus'' (Sprague) Sprague
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Nautilocalyx hirtiflorus'' (Spruce ex Hanst.) Sprague
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Nautilocalyx kohlerioides'' (Leeuwenb.) Wiehler
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Nautilocalyx lucianii'' (Linden & E. Fourn.) Wiehler
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Nautilocalyx lynchii'' (Hook. f.) Sprague
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Nautilocalyx maguirei'' L.E.Skog & Steyerm.
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Nautilocalyx melittifolius'' (L.) Wiehler
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Nautilocalyx membranaceus
''Nautilocalyx'' is a genus of plants in the family Gesneriaceae
Gesneriaceae, the gesneriad family, is a family of flowering plants consisting of about 152 genera and ca. 3,540 species in the tropics and subtropics of the Old World (almos ...
'' (C.V.Morton) Wiehler
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Nautilocalyx mimuloides'' (Benth.) C.V.Morton
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Nautilocalyx mulfordii'' Wiehler
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Nautilocalyx pallidus'' (Sprague) Sprague
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Nautilocalyx panamensis'' (Seem.) Seem.
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Nautilocalyx peltatus'' (C.V. Morton) Wiehler
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Nautilocalyx pemphidius'' L.E.Skog
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Nautilocalyx peruvianus'' Wiehler
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Nautilocalyx picturatus'' L.E. Skog
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Nautilocalyx pictus'' (Hook.) Sprague
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Nautilocalyx porphyrotrichus'' (Leeuwenb.) Wiehler
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Nautilocalyx punctatus'' Wiehler
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Nautilocalyx purpurascens'' Kriebel
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Nautilocalyx resioides'' (Leeuwenb.) Wiehler
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Nautilocalyx silvaticus'' (Cuatrec.) Wiehler
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Nautilocalyx speciosus'' Wiehler
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Nautilocalyx urticifolius'' (Leeuwenb.) Wiehler
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Nautilocalyx villosus'' (Kunth & C.D.Bouché) Sprague
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Nautilocalyx vinosus'' Wiehler
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Nautilocalyx whitei'' Rusby
References
Other sources
USDA Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN) entry* Brummitt, R. K. 1993. Report of the Committee for Spermatophyta: 39. Taxon 42:878.
* Feuillet, C. & L. E. Skog. 1990. (991) Proposal to conserve 7857a Nautilocalyx against Centrosolenia (Gesneriaceae: Gesnerioideae). Taxon 39:691–693.
Gesneriaceae genera
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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